Clearly, it pays smugglers to take their chances and pay an occasional fine, because the fine is so much less than the end-point sale value of the ivory. Meanwhile, elephants are going extinct at an appalling rate throughout Africa and Asia.

A number of environmental groups are asking the Department of the Interior to rescind permission granted to Shell to begin exploratory drilling in the Arctic this summer because they say the company's plan would not adequately protect the walrus.

A little more than two weeks ago, a group of extreme anti-abortion activists released the first in a series of secretly obtained videos designed to discredit Planned Parenthood. The videos have all been widely discredited, but that has not stopped...

A small semi-submersible vessel containing four people and eight tons of cocaine was discovered by the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on July 18 in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

In the city of Mszczonow, a new investment plan was underway to open a Dolphinarium. This undertaking is a major controversy because of the global movement to stop dolphin exploitation in theme parks and other Dolphinariums.

Several earthquakes shook Oklahoma on Monday as the state experiences a sharp increase in the frequency of tremors linked to wastewater disposal from gas and oil drilling, including from fracking, state and federal officials said.

Cecil the lion âEUR" the most famous creature in one of Zimbabwe's national parks âEUR" was killed by an American hunter who has boasted about shooting a menagerie of animals with his bow and arrow, The Telegraph can reveal.

Eleven years ago surveys estimated that about 440 Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) roamed the dense mangrove forests of BangladeshâEUR(TM)s Sundarbans region. Today we have a new number and it is much, much lower.